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While it is good that you have cut down that much the little bit that you are still smoking is affecting your little one. Try hard candies, sun flower seeds, lollipops to stop the habit. If you've got it down to just one every other day I have confidence in you that you can cut it down to none!

Good for you for cutting that far down! Have you tried eating hard candies when you get the urge to smoke? That helped me years ago. Especially lollipops, maybe cuz it takes as long to eat a lollipop as it does to smoke a cig!. lol. Good Luck

Cigarette smoke contains more than 2,500 chemicals. It is not known for certain which of these chemicals are harmful to the developing baby, but both nicotine and carbon monoxide play a role in causing adverse pregnancy outcomes. Smoking nearly doubles a woman's risk of having a low-birthweight baby.Low birthweight can result from poor growth before birth, preterm delivery or a combination of both. Smoking has long been known to slow fetal growth. Smoking also increases the risk of preterm delivery (before 37 weeks of gestation).Premature and low-birthweight babies face an increased risk of serious health problems during the newborn period, chronic lifelong disabilities (such as cerebral palsy, mental retardation and learning problems), and even death. women who smoke are more likely to have a baby with birth defects, particularly congenital heart defects. The risk of heart defects appears to increase with the # of cigarettes a woman smokes.

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